Sara Futch, a graduate student at North Carolina State University, won Best Overall Poster at the Citizen Science Association Conference 2019 for her poster, “Uncovering Connections across Citizen Science Projects: A Social Network Analysis.” Conference attendees selected Sara’s poster via in-person votes during the poster session.
(Credit: Sara Futch)
Sara Futch
Here’s more from Sara about her research:
“My name is Sara Futch, and I’m a graduate student in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology with a minor in Human Dimensions at North Carolina State (NC State) University. Our research team in the Public Science cluster at NC State is using SciStarter analytics to start to understand how volunteers are engaging in projects across the citizen science landscape. We’ve seen evidence that some volunteers are joining multiple citizen science projects, so I am working to map and understand these volunteers’ patterns of engagement among different types of projects.
To do this, ...
